What does fuel urban mean?

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The Urban figure is represents fuel consumption while driving in inner-city conditions with heavy, stop-start, local traffic. The Extra Urban figure represents fuel consumption at slightly higher average speeds, slightly longer distances and includes trips with acceleration to reach highway speeds.

What is excessive fuel consumption?

This bad habit is threefold – driving too fast, accelerating too quickly, and stopping too suddenly. All three of these actions lead to high fuel consumption. Where possible, you should accelerate slowly and drive with the speed of traffic.

What is EC urban mpg?

What is Urban mpg? Put simply, when you see EC Urban MPG, it’s supposed to represent the average miles per gallon for modern inner-city driving. The Urban Cycle test consists of acceleration, deceleration, idling, and steady speed testing with a maximum speed of 31 mph over a distance of 2.5 miles.

How do you drive extra urban?

Extra-Urban Cycle This test is designed to mimic driving on country roads and motorways. The car will gently accelerate to 43mph, maintain the speed for 50 seconds, drop down to 30mph for 69 seconds and then accelerate back up to 43mph.

What does extra-urban mpg mean on a car?

Extra-urban MPG measures a vehicle’s efficiency on B-road/A-road/motorway driving environments. Combined MPG measures a vehicle’s efficiency using a combination of urban and extra-urban driving conditions. Find out more and how you can improve your fuel economy in our handy guide.

What’s the difference between urban and rural fuel consumption?

The Urban figure is represents fuel consumption while driving in inner-city conditions with heavy, stop-start, local traffic. The Extra Urban figure represents fuel consumption at slightly higher average speeds, slightly longer distances and includes trips with acceleration to reach highway speeds.

What’s the difference between extra urban and fuel con?

Pretty sure we just adopted the Euro way of doing things – may be wrong though. Extra urban is basically the old highway or country ie: the best figures you will get in ideal conditions. Did have a link to it a while back, I’ll see if I can find it for you… No luck, but someone else here might have one for you.

What’s the difference between urban and extra urban in the UK?

Every new car in the UK has three official fuel consumption ( fuel economy) ratings – Urban, Extra-Urban and Combined. Urban is supposed to represent city driving, Extra-Urban represents country roads and motorways, and Combined represents an overall figure.